Glam girl Heddy Lamar may have used her good looks to good effect on the silver screen, but she put her smarts to better use as an inventor. During World War II, she co-patented a frequency-switching system for torpedo guidance that was considered years ahead of its time.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6878171 | Method for forming a distinct pattern in an article of apparel A method of forming a distinct pattern in an article of apparel formed of fabric, including the steps of: impregnating a viscous blocking agent into the fabric of the article of apparel in the distinct pattern; treating at least a portion of fabric surrounding the b... | 04/12/2005 |
| 6685749 | Fabrics with surfaces of contrasting colors and/or different contour Fabrics, formed, for example, by joining stitch and loop yarns to form a fabric prebody, with the loop yarn forming in loops that overlay the stitch yarn at the technical face and back of the fabric prebody, and thereafter finishing the fabric prebody to ... | 02/03/2004 |
| 5574106 | Acrylic polymers and their use in stain resistant polyamide textile products Addition polymers suitable for imparting stain resistance to nylon carpets and other polyamide products are formed of styrene or other ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing cyclic hydrocarbon groups, sodium vinyl sulphonate or other ethylenically u... | 11/12/1996 |
| 5554195 | Process for the production of resist prints This invention relates to a process for the production of resist prints on two-dimensional textile materials, which is characterized by the steps of impregnating with a water-repellent those parts of one side of a textile piece which are to be given a res... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5360455 | Process for producing multicolor or tone-in-tone effects There is disclosed a process for producing multicolor or tone-in-tone effects on natural and synthetic polyamide fiber material by subjecting flocks, slubbing, yarn or selected areas of piece goods to a plasma or corona discharge treatment before dyeing a... | 11/01/1994 |
| 5330543 | Thiopheneazo dyes with a coupling component of the diaminopyridine series Azo dyes having the formula ##STR1## wherein the substituents are as defined in the specification and are useful for dyeing or printing textile materials.... | 07/19/1994 |
| 5131914 | Process for preparing multi-colored dyed polyamide substrates including the application of a reactive vinyl sulfone dye and a resist agent This is a method for producing multi-colored polyamide dyeings which is particularly useful in the multi-colored dyeing of polyamide carpets. In this method, a three-component dyeing system is employed which comprises a fiber reactive dye, an anionic resi... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5131913 | Production of pattern effects when dyeing or printing textile material in the absence of alkali or reducing agents: cationization and oxidized in a pattern before dyeing Process for producing pattern effects when dyeing or printing textile material in the absence of alkali or reducing agents, which comprises pretreating the textile material with a cationizing agent, drying, applying an oxidizing agent in the form of a pat... | 07/21/1992 |
| 5066535 | Fabric patterning process and product A method for patterning a textile fabric in which a hydrophobic composition is uniformly applied to the surface of the fabric, and the resulting product. A high velocity water stream is used to wet areas of the fabric comprising the pattern areas. An aque... | 11/19/1991 |
| 4881941 | Suppress dyeing method A textile substrate is dyed by immersing it in a gathered configuration into an oil medium containing a dissolved or dispersed dye for a sufficient time to allow the oil medium to come into contact with part but not all of the surface of the substrate and... | 11/21/1989 |
| 4820310 | Method of producing characters, symbols, patterns on thermoplastic resin molded article by reserve dyeing A method of producing characters, symbols, patterns (hereinafter referred to as "characters, etc.") on a thermoplastic resin molded article is characterized in that in order to produce characters, etc. on the molded article, a dye-impenetrable cover is fi... | 04/11/1989 |
| 4719657 | Method of forming iris variegation patterns on contact lenses A tinted soft contact lens such as a hydrated hydrogel lens having a variegated iris pattern is prepared by forming an iris pattern on the lens with a viscous paste which can contain an unoxidized vat dye. The lens is treated with a developer solution to ... | 01/19/1988 |
| 4717389 | Hair-reserving dyeing of wool- and fur-bearing skins A hair-reserving penetration dyeing of the leather side of wool- or fur-bearing skins is obtained by dyeing the wooled or fur skins in aqueous medium with hydrosoluble sulpho-group-containing sulphur dyes (a) in the presence of dye-substantive uptake assi... | 01/05/1988 |
| 4680033 | Process for producing white and colored resists on polyamide fiber materials using reactive dye in free vinyl sulphone form In the conventional discharge printing on polyamide fiber materials using acid dyes, above all, the very low wet and light fastness properties of the designs obtained in this manner are frequently an obstacle to the wide expansion of this interesting tech... | 07/14/1987 |
| 4622044 | Textile dyeing process for multicolor nylon carpet A continuous process for dyeing a pre-wetted carpet includes the step of applying a viscous water soluble gum layer over the tufted face of the carpet. Drops of first and second dyes less viscous than the gum are applied over the gum-wetted carpet face. A... | 11/11/1986 |
| 4556625 | Development of a colored image on a cellulosic material with monosulfonyl azides The present invention discloses a method of photolytically developing a colored image on a cellulosic material. In this method, the material is contacted with a nitrogen containing polymer in solution and a mono-sulfonyl azide compound in solution. The sa... | 12/03/1985 |
| 4285691 | Alkoxylated fatty amines and polyamines as reserving agents The present invention provides a process for dyeing an anionic dyeable substrate with reserve and/or multicolored effects, which process comprises (1) impregnating the substrate with a dyeing liquor containing an anionic dye having a K'-valueࣙ5 (2) dire... | 08/25/1981 |
| 4271224 | Transfer sheet with resist portions A transfer sheet comprising, in laminated combination, a substrate sheet and, provided thereabove, a coloring layer of desired pattern containing a coloring agent possessing heat transferability and a resist layer of a desired pattern containing a metal c... | 06/02/1981 |
| 4189302 | Continuous process and apparatus for randomly coloring pile fabric A continuous process and apparatus for randomly coloring a pile fabric material includes pretreating the fabric to be dyed with a wetting agent, conveying the pretreated fabric continuously through a series of operating stations including a gum applicator... | 02/19/1980 |
| 4106896 | Method for producing multicolor printed web material A method is described for producing a multicolor printed web material such as a carpet substantially without spoilage of production web material during a start-up of a printing process employing a plurality of dyes applied in different patterns. A lead ca... | 08/15/1978 |